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Old 03-26-2014 | 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted by tom11011
The only problem is Envoy will not be able to hire 60 per month. There are some pilots near the end of the training pipeline right now. There are other pilots who will jump ship and join. Then there will likely be 2 airline failures this year to capture pilots. --but after that, there is nothing really in the pilot pipeline. The industry is just now starting to scratch the surface of this problem. Imagine what it will look like in 6 months. The shortage doesn't even peak for another 6 years.
There's over 10k pilots begging for jobs at majors. I agree with mason, this is their plan. Esp if delta files suit right behind American, that closes off 20000 mainline jobs to the regional world.
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